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Daniel talks with Dr. Philip Nitschke with the Voluntary Euthanasia Network in Australia's Northern Territory. Recently, the Northern Territory Assembly voted that a measure legalizing euthanasia would go into effect July 1st. After the law was passed last year, several people travelled to the Northern Territory hoping to take advantage of legalized physician assisted suicide. But upon arrival, they discovered the law had not actually taken effect and several ended up taking their lives illegally. With this pending enactment, Dr. Nitschke says there's about 10 people he knows of who are planning to travel to the territory in order to die there, legally.

companies, Bell Atlantic and NYNEX are to merge, creating the second largest phone company in the nation. The two now provide local phone service to much of the Northeast United States.

Robert speaks with Marjorie Miller, Los Angeles Times Bureau Chief in Jerusalem, about the meeting in Gaza today of the Palestine National Council. For decades, the P-N-C has been the government in exile for Palestinians. This is the group's first meeting in territory controlled by Palestinians and Yasser Arafat is asking the council to remove their constitutional clause calling for the destruction of Israel. Many of the participants have rejected any accommodation with Israel in the past.

Anderson and Lieutenant Commander William G. Stubbs, who collided yesterday during combat training exercises in FA-18A Hornet fighter jets and managed to fly their damaged aircraft back to base...

Our series continues ... Today, we hear from Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation who believes the English Only movement is imperative. Brimelow argues that bilingualism gives the power to a minority rather than to the majority. On the other side we hear from Sandford Ungar author of Fresh Blood: The New Amercian Immigrants who says English Only is a ridiculous movement because there is no reason to fear that English will not remain the preeminent language of the United States. (5:00) (Alien Nation is published by Random House) (Fresh Blood is published by Simon & Sh

on the increasing debate over today's "Take Our Daughters to Work Day".

Marius Benson reports from Pretoria that South Africa's government today postponed for a third time provincial elections for the violence-torn region of KwaZulu-Natal (kwah-ZU-LU nah-TALL). Many feared such a move would touch off a political crisis, as the Inkatha Freedom Party had threatened to quit the government of national unity if the vote were put off again. But Inkatha's leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi (man-go-SOO-too booduh-LAY-zee), grudgingly accepted the move, which delays the May 29 vote for up to a month. The postponement grew out of concern that escalating violence between Inkatha and the African National Congress would make it impossible to hold the election without significant bloodshed.

- NPR's Richard Harris explores why some noises are more annoying than others. Is it pitch? Perhaps fingernails across a chalkboard have too many high tones and not enough lows? Scientists have learned the secret and are applying their know how in all sorts of creative ways to make the world of sound more bearable.

Phillip Davis reports on the FCC's lucrative auctioning of licenses for the next generation of wireless phones. San Diego-based NextWave Telecom made the highest offer in an auction that the FCC plans to generate $10.2 billion for the federal treasury.

Commentator Stuart Cheifet reports that Cyberspace allows everyone to be an active receipient of information, unlike previous media, like television or radio. We can move forward in cyberspace at the pace we determine.